Security News > 2020 > October > Working together to secure our expanding connected health future

Former Vice President Cheney, for example, had the wireless capabilities of a defibrillator disabled when implanted near his heart in 2007, and hospital IT departments and health providers have for years secured medical devices to protect patient data and meet HIPAA requirements.

On top of this, millions of additional connected devices are maintained by the patients themselves.

The connected device itself needs to be secure, as opposed to the network surrounding the device.

Last year, the FDA issued a safety communication to alert health care providers and patients about cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified in a wireless telemetry technology used for communication that impacted more than 20 types of implantable cardiac devices, programmers, and home monitors.

Working together to incorporate cybersecurity into device design, industry regulations, provider resilience, and patient education are where we should start.

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